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Today, fifty-one new open e-textbooks were added to the open educational resources collection available within the NCLOR. The e-textbooks have been created by The University of Wisconsin, The University of Minnesota, and Oregon State University. The textbooks were created under a creative commons license and are free and open to use.

The University of Minnesota collection of Open Textbook collection states its mission as “promoting access to higher education and collaborating to advance knowledge benefiting communities, the state, and world.”

The some of open textbooks available from The University of Minnesota are:

Today, thirty-five video resources from the University of Cambridge were added to the open educational resources collection within the NCLOR. In this series, you can find out about some of the research, discoveries, and innovations that take place at Cambridge University. In particular, Cambridge Ideas which is an ongoing series of short documentaries that present Cambridge’s cutting edge research together with comment and opinion on matters of global significance. Additions to the Cambridge Shorts and Curious Objects series have also been added to the series.

Today, seventy-five resources from the University of Cambridge were added to the open educational resources collection within the NCLOR. In this series, you can find out about some of the research, discoveries and innovations that take place at Cambridge University. In particular, a collection of short films in which top researchers reveal some of their latest findings and discuss subjects ranging from energy to disappearing languages, and policing the streets to the future of robotics.

The topics included in this series are:

Cambridge Shorts – short films from top researchers at Cambridge

Lines of Thought – Discoveries that Changed the World – videos from the Cambridge Library

Nano-materials Up Close – images from a electron microscope

Under the Microscope – videos that capture glimpses of the natural and man-made world in stunning close-up

Engineering – department of engineering based videos at University of Cambridge

Law – videos relating to law at the University of Cambridge.

Example: Airflow across a wing engineering video – University of Cambridge